Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1887-10-09
yrou Fridays D,ny.
nALMAGUNDI.

hA-NONGNuVH uAA A0NN Vii AgAhAh
for Carson City. d ten Iq
About twenty ladies' and gentlemen
represented Elko ut the Wells ball. i
A notice in reference TO the will ofthe
late J. II. Rand appears elsewhere in
his issue.
Love is like the measles: We can't
nave il bad but once, aud the later liz
life We have it the tougher il goes with
us. a.. rr .. ..- .ar. .. .-
The WEEKLY INDEPENDENT contEins
more interesting reading matter thaE
any paper published in Eastern Ne
vada. -F y #.rnF
Acting Chief Sulliyan OF the Sacrament
to Fi,e Department is charged with max
ing purchases and sales and no. return
ing proper statencnts Of them to the
city.
The greatest attraction at Wells, in
Chris Reckhart's estimation, is the big
fish. The said trout is not long for this
world if Charley Frociich gets to hear
oft.
An experiment in train telegrnphy
will be made on the Lehigh Valley
Rnilroad soon by prominent men
who are advanced in the science of
electricity. .. ...
Calamity Jane, A Story Of the Black
Hills, by Mrs. George E. Spencer. A
book of l72 pages, published 10y Cas-
sell & Co., 739 Broadway, New York.
Price % cents.
Four criminals escaped from Laramie
County, Wyoming, Jail at s o'clock
Tuesday evening by cutting n hoe in
the top Of the iron oln1. aud crawling
through the veutilutor of the roof.
The statement prepared at the Treas
ury Department shows that during the
month Of September there was n net in
crease of S32. 800, a75 in circulation and
a net increase OF 81, POI 1876 in cash in
the Treasury. .,....
il is rumored TINT F.. G. Hardy, of the
Oasis ranch, sold 'Biondeau," the cele-
brtted imported Percheron stallion.
during his recent visit to the State
Fai., but whether the report is reliable
We are unable to say.
The latest news from Samoa is that
The Germans took King Malietoa on
board n gunbrat for the purpose of
executing him on account OF his
failure to prevent the people from
robbiug the German plantations.
We learn that our Dceth subscribers
failed to receive their INDEPENDENT last
week, nnl while We regret the miScar-
riagc We Gun assure our readers that the
fault is not in this Office as the paper is
mailed regularly every Friday evening
Having located in Elko [ am pre-
pared TO Oil orders for Painting, Grain
ing and Paper Hanging. Ceiling Deco
ratinns a speciality. All work first
class. Leave orders at the 1NDEPEND-
n Omse.
@. f. HARVEY.
The report that DR.. J. Henderson
md this scribe mouksyed with equine
poker Mt Wells, dropping 5000 into his
horaeship's treasury, is refuted as n
vile SANDER on the acumen of good
business men. To think that we could
not beat such IN easy gnle- Nonsense!
We learn hat the item published n
few days since in reference to the settle
ment of the Murphy estate was mn err
ror so FIR rs i. related to the late Dan
Murphy, the cattle man, but that it was
TIE estate Of Murphy Of the firm OF
Murphy, Grant & Co., OF San Francis
co.
Recorl:-Piocho is rs orderly and
well conducted III not quite M pious, as
a New England town on Sunday. The
dull times make our citizens good ma
tured aud forbenring, and scarcely a
ripple appears on the surface ~ vary
the orderly monOtony Of well.doing.
This is good for our citizens, but is
death on local items.
Tho most important proposition to
come before the General Assembly
Of the Knights q Labor, now in ses-
sion at Minneapolis, 81 O scheme to
unite the Knights OF Labor and the
National Farmers alliance into one
organization. a prominent member
Of the Knights thinks 'this would
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